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in Thomaston on the farm of Wm. Watson, Jr., near the present dwelling of Mrs. Elisha Snow. Here their household was superintended by Miss Catharine Gregg, or rather Mrs. Webb, as she was reputed to be by what she believed a legal marriage, but which she was ultimately induced by these physicians to acknowledge as invalid, and died not long after, beautiful, weak, and ill-used woman. Two of her children were adopted and brought up as his own by Dr. Dodge.

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Dr. Webb remained here till about 1795, when marrying a daughter of Samuel Boggs of Warren, he removed to that, place, and, without relinquishing his practice, managed the farm on a part of which his brother, Dea. Wm. H. Webb, still resides. About 1802, he returned and opened a store at Mill River, in the building now occupied above by Joshua Brackett, at the same time taking charge of Dodge's business during his temporary absence in New Brunswick. In 1806, he removed to the Rendell house near Owl's Head Point, where he kept a store and tavern, sometimes boarded the town's paupers, and continued his professional practice till 1813, when he removed to Zanesville, Ohio.

Another of Dodge's medical students, about or before this time taken into practice as a partner, but ostensible rival of his master, was Dr. Isaac Bernard, who after a short preparation went into practice at Union, Camden, and perhaps other places, for a time, and finally in the eastern part of this town, -as best suited the interest of Dodge in guarding against the inroads of more formidable rivals in the profession. Having a ready perception of symptoms, he used to consult Dodge as to the remedies, and in time became a skilful physician,-succeeding to much of his master's practice, though, we believe, without any unfriendly rivalship. Dodge used to say of the two, when students, that Bernard was gifted with a good eye to discover disease, but had little. knowledge of the proper remedies, whilst Webb was skilled in the knowledge of medicine, but had no faculty for discerning the symptoms; so that if he "could send both together, they might make one first-rate physician." After Dr. Bernard's second marriage, he was in possession of considerable property; but, investing it in ship-building which proved unfortunate, he was never wealthy. He lived at Blackington's Corner, or the North End of what is now Rockland; where he continued in practice, held many town and military offices, and was repeatedly chosen representative.

Jonas Dean, who came from New Meadows to Wessaweskeag and worked some three or four years in Mr. Snow's

mill, this year married, and, after living a while in Snow's store, built a house on his own lot now occupied by his son Dea. Samuel Dean. George Emery from Kittery, a brotherin-law, came probably about the same time, 1789, to Owl's Head; having resided for a time previous in Harpswell. The preceding year, according to family tradition, though probably later as the name is not in the census of 1790, came the widow Sleeper and her five sons, who settled at Ash Point, and whose descendants have been numerous in the vicinity. John White, who this year married a daughter of Mr. Rendell at Owl's Head, and Eliphalet Gray, with a family of six, were also settled in the town; and Wm. Green, an Englishman, about this time was located on the farm since owned by J. W. Small on the George's River side of what is now South Thomaston.

1790. The new or federal constitution of the United States, which had been ratified by Massachusetts Feb. 9th, 1788, and put in operation April 30th, 1789, by the inauguration of George Washington as its first president, was now regarded as of equal authority with that of the State. And, it would seem from the records, that an oath to support the same, together with the test oath of the State constitution, was required here, even of the selectmen, -the number of whom was this year increased to five. In the first election under that constitution, the present State of Maine formed but one congressional district, and elected Hon. Geo. Thatcher of Biddeford its representative; but, in the election, this town does not appear to have taken any part. The first census under it, taken this year by Rev. T. Whiting of Warren, showing the extent of population the town had now reached and the families composing it, we here insert at large, alphabetically arranged. The first column gives the heads of families; the second column, the free white males under 16 years of age; the third column, ditto, of 16 and upwards; the fourth, free white females; the fifth, colored, or all other free persons; making an aggregate of 801 inhabitants :

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Ingraham, Job

Ingraham, Joseph
Ingraham, Josiah
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Jordan, Israel
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Keen, John
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Keating, Richard
Killsa, Hugh
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*Copied in March, 1862, by Capt. A. C. Spalding, from the original manuscript in the Census Bureau, Washington, D. C.

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CHAPTER X.

VARIOUS INCIDENTS, FIRST POST OFFICE, AND FIRST

MEETING-HOUSE.

AT the annual meeting in March, 1790, a vote is recorded that"Quakers have Liberty to wear their hats in Town Meeting;" but whether passed for the accommodation of Mr. Chapman of that denomination or as a joke upon some who wore their hats regardless of the custom then prevailing at such meetings, tradition does not state. Possibly the coldness of the weather made the wearing of hats a necessity; as Capt. J. Watson wrote on the 7th April that "the snow was very deep, and that snow and sleet fell, all that day."

The first division of the town into school districts was made in Oct. 1790, as follows: "The 1st District to be from Warren line to the east line of J. Dillaway's land, and from thence to T. Stevens's upon the N. side of the road; the 2d, from the 1st District Line, including the Beech Woods, Mr. Creighton's, Mr. Butler's, and all the inhabitants upon the River to the Town line at Cushing (now St. George ;) the 3d, all the N. E. part of the town from Mr. Creighton's northerly line, including all the inhabitants to the Camden line and southerly on the sea-shore to Mr. Lindsey's; the 4th, all the inhabitants on both sides Wessaweskeag River, taking in Mr. Spalding; the 5th, all the inhabitants from Timothy Spalding's to Ash Point and Owl's Head Harbour, including James Rendell; the 6th, all the inhabitants from John Godding's to Rosamus Lowell's."

The "pound of good logs," voted in 1786, seems never to have been built; as the selectmen this year ordered that the barn-yard of Capt. Thomas Vose, who now occupied the Wadsworth house, be used as a pound for the present; and, the autumn following, votes were passed "that one pound should be built on the N. W. corner of the town Landing place near Wheaton's saw-mill," and another at Wessaweskeag; of which James Fales, Jr., and Wm. Rowell were chosen pound-keepers.

1791. At a meeting, May 5th, the town voted "that Capt. Josiah Reed have liberty to build a store on the town landing, near Col. Wheaton's Mill, for the term of seven years, he paying three shillings per year for the use thereof."

Reed came from Massachusetts, where he married Betsey, the daughter of Dr. John Taylor, proprietor of the township

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